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You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.

P. J. O'Rourke

Global warming is a fact. Now it’s up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing powerful, greedy free market forces from getting in the way of worsening storms and rising sea levels. The Kyoto Accord is a good first step.
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Fact Global Greedy Importance Make Powerful Prevent Reality Warming
Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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Everybody Everything Happy Idea Insane Law Liberal
New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State’s registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they’re going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can’t understand what they say.
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Independent New Poll Registered Republican Unreliable
Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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Election Explosion Positive Right Started
Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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Enough Jail Limit Need Term
Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
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Bit Difficult Express Fiction Government More Past Size Something
Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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Economic Globalization Marketplace Open Simply World
Once you’ve built the big machinery of political power, remember you won’t always be the one to run it.
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Always Build Machinery Once One Political Remember Rum
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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Children Everybody Except Know People Raise
Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Artistic Country Impact Life Tremendous Woodstock
They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, ‘But doesn’t it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn’t it be set in New Guinea?’ And you say, ‘But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.’
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Absolute Love People Really Say Script Stupid Write
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.
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Behaviour Drunk Ever Holiday New Proper Season Yera
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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Achieve Attempt Merit Politics Power Prestige
I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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Country Favor Invasion Mush
Never fight an inanimate object.
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Fight Inanimate never Object
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Except Love never Unfaithful Wife

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